Hilary Mantel has compared the new citizenship test with the kind of exercise
that would have been carried out in South Africa under apartheid.

The author, whose historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
have won her two Booker prizes and the Costa Award, said that the Home
Office’s guide for immigrants was the product of “strange, warped minds”.

In an interview published in The Times today, she said that the guide Life
in the United Kingdom and the Home Office’s test on it represent a
warped view of history designed to divide people. “I think it’s appalling,”